All plugins need updating

**mitchjs** · 09-10-2008, 10:28 AM

GUINO has fixed the Indicator in plugins, to do that
a change has to be made in the main code to allow
a non processed Indicator...

this is the solution we came up with, and adding of the ReturnIndicatorEx
which depreciates ReturnIndicator

change your code to the default return of "" instead of "False"
example

Code:

Public Function ReturnIndicator(IND As String) As String

    'Default (No Action)
    'ONLY return "True" or "False" IF AND ONLY IF you process that code
    'else return ""
    ReturnIndicator = ""

    Select Case LCase(IND)
        Case "myindicator"
            ReturnIndicatorEx  = "True"
    End Select

End Function

also... TO MOVE FORWARD change ReturnIndicator to ReturnIndicatorEx

ReturnIndicatorEx:

Code:

'*****************************************************************
'* This Function will be called with requested indicator code
'* specified at the skin file. Simply return "True" or "False" to
'* displayed the respective ON or OFF layer of the skin images.
'* alternatively you can specify a path to a file to be displayed
'* as the indicator specified. Return "False" to erase the image.
'* ONLY return something else IF AND ONLY IF you process that code
'*****************************************************************
Public Function ReturnIndicatorEx(IND As String) As String

    'Default (No Action)
    ' DO NOT RETURN "False" for unprocess indicators, return ""
    ReturnIndicatorEx = ""

    Select Case LCase(IND)
        Case "myindicator"
            'This example show ON for even seconds and OFF otherwise
            ReturnIndicatorEx = IIf(Val(Format(Time, "SS")) Mod 2 = 0, "C:\VBStuff\Road Runner\XMArt\1.gif", "False")
        
        'Specify whatever and whichever indicators you wish to create
        'You can add as many as you'd like, and you can process complex indicators as long
        'as you parse them yourself (i.e. "mycomplexindicator;parameter")
        
        'Case "myindicator2"
            'Insert Code here to return "True", "False" or Path name

    End Select

End Function

**mitchjs** · 09-10-2008, 10:30 AM

I will prob post my C# plugin template i did at some point

mitch

**Sonicxtacy02** · 09-10-2008, 10:35 AM

it says there in the notes.. but i wanted to point out the addition to the indicator code. Plugin indicators can now be true, false, OR an image path. This will allow you to display an image through an indicator.. similar to the way the ALBUMART indicator works. To display the image simple create an indicator and set the case for that indicator to ReturnIndicatorEX = IMAGEPATH.. like so

Code:

Case "myindicator2"
            ReturnIndicatorEx = ImagePath
'where ImagePath is a full path to image file stored locally

to remove this indicator from being shown simply

Code:

ImagePath = "False"

**2k1Toaster** · 09-10-2008, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by mitchjs

I will prob post my C# plugin template i did at some point

mitch

Would appreciate that.

**guino** · 09-10-2008, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

it says there in the notes.. but i wanted to point out the addition to the indicator code. Plugin indicators can now be true, false, OR an image path. This will allow you to display an image through an indicator.. similar to the way the ALBUMART indicator works. To display the image simple create an indicator and set the case for that indicator to ReturnIndicatorEX = IMAGEPATH.. like so

Code:

Case "myindicator2"
            ReturnIndicatorEx = ImagePath
'where ImagePath is a full path to image file stored locally

to remove this indicator from being shown simply

Code:

ImagePath = "False"

This is in fact a great improvement as the same indicator code is not limited to just On/Off states, but it can be expanded to many different states displayed each by a different image... an example would be the channel arts for XM/Sirius etc.. where the Album art is an indicator and the image of channel is just a different state for the indicator. Not to say, the images will be loaded with transparency over the OFF layer.

**JohnWPB** · 09-10-2008, 03:37 PM

Mitch, in your example above you do have the code correct, but in the comments it states:

'ONLY return "True" or "False" IF AND ONLY IF you process that code

You may want to change that, as if they read the "instructions" in the code, it would defeat the "" instead of "false"

**Sonicxtacy02** · 09-10-2008, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

Mitch, in your example above you do have the code correct, but in the comments it states:

'ONLY return "True" or "False" IF AND ONLY IF you process that code

You may want to change that, as if they read the "instructions" in the code, it would defeat the "" instead of "false"

i'm lost on that one. You can still set ReturnIndicator to False, you just cant set it as false as the default setting. Where ReturnIndicator = "" used to be ReturnIndicator = false. That was pretty much the root of the problem

**Enforcer** · 09-10-2008, 05:45 PM

Does this mean the the ReturnIndicator section is now completely ignored and we are to use ReturnIndicatorEx only?

**Sonicxtacy02** · 09-10-2008, 06:13 PM

no ReturnIndicator still works fine as long as the default isnt set to false. That being said ReturnIndicatorEX is EXACTLY the same accept for the image improvement